A pair of Belgian stage artists who are leaders of Europe’s institutional avant-garde, director Ivo van Hove and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, will stage the first major American revival of the musical to make a complete departure from the model of Jerome Robbins’s original staging. (De Keersmaeker and her company have been regular visitors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; van Hove has directed two Arthur Miller revivals on Broadway and won a Tony for one of them.)
Month: July 2018
Man Finds $1 Million Stolen Painting In Dad’s Garage
“Sometime in 1978 a huge piece by Robert Motherwell, the modernist painter, went missing from a Manhattan warehouse, one of dozens that were lost and thought stolen when Motherwell hired a moving company to help him switch his works from one storage site to another. On Thursday, four decades after it had disappeared, the 1967 work, ‘Untitled,’ now valued at $1 million, was returned to the foundation dedicated to preserving Motherwell’s legacy. It was found in a garage in upstate New York by the son of a man who used to work for the movers.”
Two Art Colleges In North Carolina Announce That They’re Closing Before The End Of The Year
“The Art Institute campuses in Durham and Charlotte are among more than 30 campuses across the country run by [Dream Center Educational Holdings]. Art Institutes offer classes in animation, design, film and audio production and fashion, as well as a culinary school. … The Art Institute schools were all acquired earlier this year by Dream Center Education Holdings, a California-based nonprofit, for $60 million … [from] Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp., a for-profit school operator.”
Is Lang Lang Back? Well, Mostly (A Report From His Post-Injury Comeback At Tanglewood)
“Even at age 36, Lang Lang projects a boyish charisma that employs your protective instincts — all the more so if you saw him grow up before your eyes, emerging from his cramped Spruce Street apartment, speaking broken English, and yet becoming something as close to a rock star as any classical pianist can be.” David Patrick Stearns (who did see all that) reports on Lang Lang’s performance of a Mozart concerto with the Boston Symphony last week and checks in with Lang Lang’s primary teacher at Curtis, Gary Graffman.
Relocating This Science Museum Could Be The Most Expensive Museum Move In History
“The New South Wales state government is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate the Powerhouse Museum — part of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences — from central Sydney to a western suburb, despite widespread criticism and an ongoing parliamentary inquiry. At a cost of A$1.2bn ($890m), … [the project] means demolishing the museum, which opened in 1988 in Ultimo, central Sydney, and seven historic buildings in Parramatta, 23km to the west, to make way for a new museum due to open in 2023.”
Are We On The Cusp Of A New Age Of African Literature?
“If so, the key to new novels from African writers seems to be the fresh use of historical fiction to articulate a new future.”
Here’s One Theatre That Raised Its Hiring Of Women Directors Tenfold
“The number of women directing plays at [the Gate Theatre in Dublin] is up from 8 per cent between 2006 and 2015 to 80 per cent in the last 18 months … The number of women writers increased from 6 per cent to 33 per cent over the same period, set designers 26 per cent to 44 per cent, lighting designers 13 per cent to 33 per cent, and sound designers 1 per cent to 44 per cent.”
Today’s AJBlog Highlights 07.12.18
- Music from the attic: The Revelers return with a mellifluous secret garden The Neo-Revelers: Joseph Gaines,Bryon Grohman,tenors; Craig Phillips, bass;Anthony Patterson, piano; Jesse Blumberg, baritone. Attic music speaks quietly – and with wide-open possibilities. A secret garden, perhaps? Stacks of printed music found in closets and … read more
- A Community’s Traits New Creative Community Fellow Jesse Keller Jason sends her thoughts on “What does community mean to you?” with a photo from a community she holds dear. … read more
- Go with the Bowie Flow? Fans Usurp the Brooklyn Museum’s American Art Galleries (with video) Ground Control to Major Anne (Pasternak): Why have you allowed the your museum’s American art galleries to be commandeered by throngs of David Bowie fans? Just a month ago, I had … read more
- Guest Columnist: Mr. Rogers, and America I’M hardly the only Gen Xer to grow up on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, a show that first aired about a year before I was born. Part of me thinks that my fondness for the … read more
- Communities Don’t Always Need to Be Human In this photo essay, Jane Wegscheider reflects on her non-human community and explores how her connection to her garden affects how she interacts with her human community. My community begins with the earth, … read more
Why Did This Suburb Rise Up To Oppose A Prestige Museum?
In late January, the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation was shocked when the planning commission in the Charleston suburb of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, unanimously denied its Safdie-concieved proposal because it would exceed by 75 feet the elevation limit on land zoned for no more than 50 feet. The decision was forwarded to town council for review with a recommendation to disallow. Suddenly this picturesque community, defined by shrimp boats and sprawling marshes, was steeped in controversy over the fate of a hugely significant edifice with limitless potential as a tourist attraction.
Netflix’s Ascendancy To The Top Of The Emmys Illustrates Changes In The TV Landscape
Netflix’s narrow edge over HBO in total noms (112 vs. 108) is rich with symbolism at a moment when the entertainment industry’s old guard is scrambling to reorient a big part of its business operations to reflect the Netflix effect — i.e. making a boatload of original programming available via commercial-free streaming in a 24/7 on-demand format. It’s an incredible feat, pulled off in what feels like a blink of an eye for many industry veterans.